Performance, Play & Design
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UCSC faculty and alumni win Rydell Visual Arts Fellowships from Santa Cruz Community Foundation
A dance lecturer and two alumni from the UC Santa Cruz Arts Division have been awarded Rydell Visual Arts Fellowships for 2020 and 2021 from Community Foundation Santa Cruz County.
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UC Santa Cruz theater arts costume shop steps up to combat COVID-19
Just a couple of weeks ago, Brent Foland never imagined he’d be building face masks for his fellow UC Santa Cruz employees.
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How to #keepteaching and #keeplearning during a pandemic
Jody Greene is eager—almost desperate—to help her colleagues who are facing the unprecedented challenge of shifting to remote instruction for the entire spring quarter.
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Exploring the impact and ethics of the Frankenstein phenomena
UCSC will present “The Frankenstein Project,” a modern theatrical adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein story, plus “FrankenCon”– a three-day conference featuring scientists, theorists, authors, and artists, plus film screenings.
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Ted Warburton named inaugural Senior Fellow of Institute for Dance Education Research, Policy & Leadership
Edward (Ted) Warburton, professor of dance and interim dean of the arts at UC Santa Cruz, has been named the inaugural Senior Fellow at the Arnhold Institute for Dance Education Research, Policy & Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Theater Arts professor Gerald Casel receives National Dance Project grant
Associate professor of theater arts Gerald Casel has received a grant from the National Dance Project to create a new work titled “Not About Race Dance.” His project is one of 20 selected for funding to support the creation of new dance works that will tour the United States in 2020.
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña returns to UCSC to perform his latest solo work: “The Most (un) Documented Mexican Artist”
Internationally renowned artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña returns to UC Santa Cruz on March 5 to perform his latest solo work, “The Most (un) Documented Mexican Artist,” at the Theater Arts Second Stage, beginning at 7 p.m.
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UCSC to bring art/science LASER series downtown for special evening at Rio Theater
On Tuesday, March 12, the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz will bring its local LASER—now in its sixth year of quarterly talks on campus—downtown for a special evening at the Rio Theater.
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‘What refugees taught me about Shakespeare’
On Jan. 31, New York theater director Jessica Bauman will come to campus for a special evening at Kresge Town Hall titled ‘What Refugees Taught Me About Shakespeare.’ Together with UCSC professor Cat Ramirez, she will explore the ways that the stories we hear and tell about refugees shape our responses to the worldwide migration…
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New twist on ‘The Turn of the Screw’ to have West Coast premiere at UC Santa Cruz
The West Coast premiere of a new interpretation of the Henry James Gothic classic, ‘Strange Window: The Turn of the Screw’–directed by acclaimed stage director and UC Santa Cruz theater arts professor Marianne Weems–will take place October 12-14 on campus at the Experimental Theater in the Theater Arts Center.
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UC Santa Cruz collaborates with SF Academy of Arts for spring production of ‘The Magic Flute’
The UC Santa Cruz Music Department will present a fully-staged production of Mozart’s comic fantasy: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), May 31 through June 3, on campus at the Music Center Recital Hall.
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Dancing into a community
The Pagkakaisa Dance Troupe, which promotes Pilipino cultural history and performs traditional folk dances from the Philippines, helps students build both camaraderie and stronger ties to their heritage.